Incredibly, an effort lead by "Flávio Soibelmann Glock"<http://use.perl.org/%7Efglock/> is working to actually implement Perl 6 in Perl 5. You can download "v6"<http://search.cpan.org/dist/v6/> now on CPAN to try it out. It's feature set has not caught up with pugs yet, but there is steady progress on it.

Perl 6 features are also coming to Perl 5 in other ways. As described below, a number of Perl 5 modules already implement some Perl 6 features, and some aspects of Perl 6 are being added to the official 5 releases, starting with Perl 5.10.

^^^ Perl 5 modules implementing Perl 6 features

* Perl 5.10 provides some Perl 6 features that you can selectively turn on. See the "Official Perl 5 Wiki"<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi> for more information.
* There are many modules that currently implement parts of Perl 6 in Perl 5. Go to "CPAN"<http://search.cpan.org/> and do a "module search on perl6"<http://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl6&mode=module>.
* (Note: (<http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Perl6>) is missing many entries. Use the search above for the time being.)
* Some of these are listed on the "PerlNet Perl 6"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> page.